Hi,

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 14:38, Brian Becker emaillists@beckerspace.com wrote:

Got the following error running the latest yum update, any thoughts?

useradd: invalid numeric argument 'avahi-autoipd' error: %pre(NetworkManager-0.7.0-4.el5_3.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 3 error:   install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping NetworkManager-0.7.0-4.el5_3

You can see the %pre script that NetworkManager-0.7.0-4.el5_3.i386 will install with the following command (assuming you have the rpm file, look for it under /var/cache/yum):

$ rpm -qp --script /path/to/.../NetworkManager-0.7.0-4.el5_3.i386.rpm

It will show you it is trying to execute this script:

preinstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh): # avahi-autoipd stuff /usr/sbin/groupadd -f -r avahi-autoipd /usr/bin/id avahi-autoipd >/dev/null 2>&1 || \ /usr/sbin/useradd -r -g avahi-autoipd -c 'avahi-autoipd' -s /sbin/nologin -d /var/lib/avahi-autoipd avahi-autoipd

From the error message, it seems to be complaining about the "-g

avahi-autoipd", which would give you an error message if the "avahi-autoipd" group does not exist. However, that is strange, considering the previous command "groupadd -f -r avahi-autoipd" is trying to create that group, and the "-f" should make it fail (and abort the script) if it cannot create the group...

Does the group exist on your system? What does "grep avahi-autoipd /etc/group" return? What does "getent group avahi-autoipd" return? What happens if you execute "/usr/sbin/groupadd -f -r avahi-autoipd" as root on the machine? Does the RPM install successfully after running that command?

HTH, Filipe